Dio Chrysostom

Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

By: Simon Swain

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Paperback | 1 August 2002

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Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer historians, philosophers, and students of literature an impressive range of high-quality writing, original reflection on ethics and social affairs, and intelligent, complex appraisal of the Roman Empire at the height of its power.This volume contains eleven new assessments of the key areas of Dio''s life and works by an international team of experts. For the first time studies of Dio''s thoughts on civic and imperial life are placed alongside studies both of the sophisticated techniques which he used to expound his political and social message and of the sources that gave him the moral authority to do so. A common theme throughout is the interrelation of writing and power against the background of Dio''s firm commitment to Hellenism in the changed circumstances of Roman rule.

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`Review from other book by this author Swain has plotted a cautious and helpful path through the lexical maze, while never losing sight of the larger view.' Times Literary Supplement `This volume is a scholarly discussion of the attitudes of Greek intellectuals in the Roman Empire...From this meticulous examination of second sophistic literati Swain draws two broad conclusions that challenge traditional opinion...This book is a must for anyone interested in the evolution of Greek culture and the second sophistic.' Richard M. Berhold, History. `Simon Swain's huge and detailed account of the main writers of the Second Sophistic will be an invaluable reference book for everyone studying or using Greek primary sources for ancient art.' Courtauld Institute `Hellenism and Empire is a significant and much needed advance in a most important and unexplored field.' Jas Elsner `Learned social analysis that will interest both specialists and informed readers generally.' CHOICE

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